Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for December 21, 2017

Stock Home Syndrome. Sounds the same.

When it comes to Scandinavian heritage, I’m Danish. So I have nothing to worry about.

Pig has enough sense to know who’s telling the truth.

Good for you, Pig.

Ok,Pig,it’s when you make too many trips to the smorgasbord.

“…when you shop too much at IKEA.”

Sounds the same to me. IKEA captures your affections, and you can’t escape it/them.

Why wouldn’t you love people who take care of you and attend your needs? Maybe you could do better if you were free, but you aren’t, and isn’t freedom just another cage? No. It’s better to be a captive and not jump out of the skillet and into the fire.

Ikea is the only store you will ever need.

seen on twitter some time ago“They don’t hire anyone at IKEA. People get lost there for a few years and eventually know where everything is. It’s Restockholm syndrome.”

Stockholm Syndrome is when you start liking Ikea.

I’ll bet Rat was the one who told Pig that in fhe first place!

By the way, we are having meatballs again for dinner.

Pig lives with Rat, who mistreats Pig, yet Pig remains friends with him.

I don’t think we can disprove that IKEA takes us hostage for some time

> I don’t think we can disprove that IKEA takes us hostage for some time

They are at least as clever with their store design as they are with making their merchandise inexpensive to make and ship.

They design the stores as a maze, with no walls around the central restaurant so the nice smells permeate the whole place. If you look at a map, you can see the uninviting “alleys” provided so employees can get through the maze.

Then they stick the store away from everything, so you’re not tempted to go somewhere else when you get hungry, or to compare prices with Target (which has similar furniture at similar prices).

Then they make sure the displays aren’t too neat, so it looks like there has been a frenzy of people looting, so, again, you’re less likely to compare prices and more likely to buy on impulse.

And they scatter impulse-buy items all around, so wherever you look, there’s something that cost less than $1 to make that looks like it might be fun.

Looks like goat has it

Ah well.

xxx

Wow. Am I glad I’ve never been in an IKEA store and have intention of ever being in one!

I suspect “Stockholm Syndrome” does apply here!

When asked why Pig had asked the question, he answered, “I am curious (pink).”

I once got lost in the Renton, WA Ikea. A little old lady showed me the way out of the labyrinth.

Yes, I also believe that Patty Hurst lives in IKEA, I thought I saw her there one day, but I didn’t recognize her with the ski mask, until I saw the AK-47. Is that Patty?

It is the Älmhult syndrome! (The first town in Sweden with an IKEA store.)

Makes sense because IKEA is from Sweden!

I feel you, pig

Why is Stockholm syndrome called that?